[lucy-issues] [jira] [Commented] (LUCY-211) MSVC 6 support

["Nick Wellnhofer (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Nick Wellnhofer commented on LUCY-211:
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I installed VC6 (don't ask me where I got it from) and found that it has a well-known problem regarding the scoping of variables in for loops. A good discussion including a work-around can be found here:

http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~bcarnes/code.html

The next thing I ran into was that stdint.h is missing. It's used in CFCVersion.h and I think this should be fixed because Microsoft compilers up to Visual Studio 2008 don't ship with this header file.
                
> MSVC 6 support
> --------------
>
>                 Key: LUCY-211
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCY-211
>             Project: Lucy
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Marvin Humphrey
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: LUCY-211-iter1.patch, LUCY-211-iter2.patch
>
>
> MSVC 6 is an old compiler, released in 1998, but some people still use
> it, particularly those motivated by the C runtime linking issue.  It will
> be hard to maintain support without a smoker, but the Lucy mainline 
> should be reasonably close to compatibility right now, so it's worth a 
> try to see if we can build and pass tests.

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